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TlCKET-PRINTENG APPARATUS.

EPECIFICA'IION forming part of Letters Patent No. 3291,544 dated October 23 1888.

Application filed August 8, 1887. Serial No. 216,425. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, GIDEoN B. Massey, of Mamaroneck, in the countyof iVestchester and State of New York, have invented a new and Improved Ticket-PrintingApparatus,ofwhich the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention relates to an apparatus for printing tickets, the object of the invention being to provide for the printing, dating, and consecutive numbering of tickets, and at the same time to preserve a record of the number of tickets sold from the point of sale to any given point upon the line, and also to preserve a record of each ticket as it is sold.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which similar figures of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the views.

Figure 1 is a perspective view of my improved ticketprinting apparatus. Fig. 2 is a view in partial section, parts being broken away, the View being taken upon a line justwithin the side wall of the casing of the apparatus and the parts being represented as they appear when the platen is in its raised posi tion. Fig. 3 is a similar view to that given in Fig. 1, the parts, however, being represented as they appear when in the printing posit-ion. Fig. 4 is a central longitudinal sectional view of the ticket-printing apparatus. Fig. 5 is a sectional plan view of a portion of the apparatus, the view being taken upon a line just above the type-wheels. Fig. 6 is a sectional view taken on line m 00 of Fig. 2. Fig. 7 is a central longitudinal sectional view of a portion of the apparatus, the type bed and wheels being removed. Fig. 8 is a face view of the web feeding and severing mechanism. Fig. 9 is a partial plan view of the web-feeding mechanism. Fig. 10 is a detail view illustrating the construction and arrangement of the parts employed to shift the main type-wheels. 11 is a detail view of the parts employed to lock the main type wheels. Fig. 12 is a plan view of'the construction illustrated in Fig. 11, the View being taken upon a line just above the locking-bar. Fig. 13 is a diagram representing the three impressions made in the printing of the ticket. Fig. 13 is a diagram representing the ticket-strip as it appears after l the third impression, showing one ticket conipletely printed. Fig. 14. is a detail view illustrating the construction and arrangement of the numbering and dating disks or wheels. Figs. 15 and 16 are detail views of the numbering-wheels. Fig. 17 is a view of a portion of the apparatus employed to record the number of tickets sold to any given point. Fig. 18 is a view taken on line yg ol Fig. 17. Fig. 19 is a sectional view taken on line 0x of Fig. 16; and Fig. 20 is a detail view, hereinafter referred to.

In the drawings above referred to, 100 rep resents the case within which my ticket- )llllting apparatus is arranged, the apparatus be ing supported by a frame that is mounted within the case, or the various parts might be studded directly to the case or to standards secured and mounted within the case, this latter mode being adopted in the construction illustrated.

The plate from which the main body of the ticket is to be printed is shown at 10, and this plate is carried by a table, 11, in advance of which I mount a large type-wheel, 12, said type-wheel being rigidly connected to a crossshaft, 13, upon one end of which there is a small gear, 14, that is engaged by a segmental gear, 15, adjustably held to a short shaft, 16, by a set-screw, 17, lever, 18. being rigidly connected to this shaft, and the shaft being mounted at one side of the ease, as shown at a in Figs. 5 and 10. The lever 18 carries a pointer, 19, and a spring-pressed locking bolt or dog, 20, that is arranged to enter notches 21, formed in the peripheral edge of an indicator-plate, 22, that is secured to one side of the case 10, the bolt being connected with a knob, 20, above the handle of the lever 18, as bestshown in Fig. at. ihe names of the stations to which tickets are to be sold appear in radial lines upon the indicator-plate, a name being placed in connection with each of the notches 21. Jpon the type-wheel 12 I also engrave the names of the stations to which tickets are to be sold, and I so connect the segmental gear15 and the small gear 1% that when the pointer 19 ofthe lever 18 points to any particular name upon the indicator-plate 22 a corresponding name upon the type-wheel 12 will be brought into printing position. In addition to the main type-wheel 12, the shaft- 13 carries a narrow wheel, 24, upon which there appear abbreviations of the names engraved upon the wheel 12, said abbreviations being in lines that are continuations of the lines occupied by the full names upon the wheel 12.

To the rear of the table 11 I mount two sets of disks, the set A consisting of a large disk, 25, and four smaller disks, 26, the large disk being provided with abbreviations ofthe names of the months, while the smaller disks are pro vided with figures, the disks being loosely mounted upon a shaft, 27, and being held in position by springs 28, which enter recesses or notches 29 between the rows or letters or figures upon the disks. In operation these disks are moved by any proper implement until the figures representing the proper date are brought into printing position. The other set of disks, B, is made up of a set or series of disks, each of which is provided with the ten numerals. These disks 30, constituting the series B, are loosely mounted upon a shaft, 31, and between each disk there is mounted a cam faced disk, 32, said disks 32 being rigidly connected to the shaft 31 and placed adjacent to toothed wheels 33, that are made integral with or rigidly connected to the disks 30, these toothed wheels and the disks 32 entering reeesses 34, that are formed in the body of the adjacent disks. WVithin these recesses 34 I mount spring-arms 35, that are provided with outwardly-extending fingers 36, which ride upon the peripheral faces of the disks 32, being normally held from engagement with the teeth of the wheels 33; but at every revolution of the right-hand disk, 30, the disk at the left will be advanced one step, the wheels 33 being formed with ten teeth, with one of which the finger 36 engages at every complete revolution of its disk 30, there being a notch, 37, in the disk 32, which provides for this engagement. The extreme right-hand disk, 30, is engaged by a finger, 38, carried by a lever, 39, which lever is connected to the platen-frame 40 by a link, 41, (see Fig. 2,) so that every time the platen-frame is raised, as will be hereinafter described, the right-hand disk, which is the unitsdisk, will be advanced one step. The finger 38 is pivotally connected to the lever 39, but is held in engagement with the teeth of the wheel 33 by a spring, 38*". (See Figs. 2 and 3.) The disks 30, after being moved, as above described, are held in position by spring arms 28, which enter recesses formed between the numerals carried by the disks 30.

The platen-frame 40 is pivotally mounted at b, and in the construction illustrated in the drawings is connected by links 42 to a doublearmed bell-crank lever, 43, the lower ends of the links 42 being pivotally connected to the short arms 44 of the levers 43, while the up per ends of these links are secured to a transverse shaft, 45, which is loosely mounted in the frame 40, the arrangement being such that if the lever 43 be thrown in the direction of the arrow (see Fig. 2) the platen-frame will be carried downward, so that its platen 48 will bear upon the plate 10 and the type of the disks constituting the series A and B.

In advance of the platen 48, I mount a feeding-roller, 49, that is arranged above two small feeding-wheels, 50, the peripheral faces of said wheels being concave, as shown at 2, (see Figs. 7 and 8,) this arrangement being adopted to prevent the smearing of the partially-printed ticket, the wheels 50 bearing only upon the edges of the web 0 from which the tickets are to be printed upon either side of the impressions made by the dating and numbering disks, the web being carried from a roll, 51, that is mounted below the platenframe 40, as best shown in Fig. 4. In order that this web may be fed forward at every upward throw of the lever 43, I provide the shaft 52, upon which the feeding roller 49 is mounted,with a gear, 53, that is engaged by a gear, 54, having double the number of teeth, said gear 54 being made integral with or rigidly connected to a toothed disk, 55, the gear and the disk being studded to the frame 40, as shown in detail, Fig. 20.

Upon the shaft 45, I mount aswinging frame, 56, which carries a pawl,57, that engages the disk 55,and to one side ofthe frame 56, I connect a block, 58, provided with spring arms 59, against which a stop,60, thatis carried by one of the long arms of the lever43, bears the arrangement being such that as the lever 43 isthrown downward it will pass above the upper springarm 59 and will move the frame 56 to the position in which it is shown in Fig. 2, the stop 60 passing beneath the lower springarm when the lever 43 is thrown to the position shown in Fig. 3, so that as the lever is returned to its vertical position the stop will strike against the under face of the lower spring-arm and will carry the frame 56 forward in the direction of the arrow shown in connection therewith in Fig. 3, this forward movement causing the toothed disk 55 to advance one-sixth ofa revolution, the same dis tance being traveled each time, and the forward motion of the disk, and consequently of the feeding-roller 49, being checked prior to the time when the ticket-severing mechanism is brought into play.

In addition to the main web I providea narrow web,which is carried by the same shaft that the roll 51 is mounted upon, and this web,

which is shown at c, is carried-forward from its roll to and about a printing and feeding roll, 61, that is mounted on the shaft 52, the leading end of the web being carried backward beneath a pressure-roll, 62, that is mounted upon a shaft, 63, the roll 62 being held in yielding contact with the roll 61 by springs 64, which bear upon the shaft 63, the springs being held to the block constituting the platen by screws 65, as shown best in Figs. 1 and 7.

Upon one end of the shaft 63 there is a ratchet or toothed wheel, 66, that is engaged by a pawl, 67, that is pivotally connected to the upper end of the link 42, the arrangement being such that at every upward throw of the lever 43 the shaft 63 will be fed forward one step. The springs 64 serve not only to vary the contact between the rolls 61 and 62, but also as regulators to vary the contact between the roller 49 and the small wheels 50, for as the shaft 52 is mounted in vertical slots formed in the walls of the frame 40 it follows that the greater the pressure between the rolls 61 and 62 the greater will be the pressure between the roller 49 and the wheels 50.

The platen-frame is normally upheld by springs 70, which are rigidly connected to the case 100 at their rear ends, the forward ends of the spring bearing against the under side of the shaft 45.

If desired, two webs, 0, might be employed, or in place of the second web a, I might employ a case, 71, Figs. 17 and 18, in which there would be mounted as many sets of numeraldisks d as there are stations upon the road in connection with which the apparatus is to be employed. found that these disks should be arranged in series of three, and in connection with each series I would arrange a finger,e,whieh would engage the toothed wheel 33 of the right-hand or units disk, these fingers being supported by spring-strips f and being normally withdrawn from the teeth of the wheel 33 by springs g.

The case 71 may be mounted in any conven ient position; but in practice I should prefer that it be mounted,substantially as represented in the drawings, just to the rear of a bell-crank lever, 72, that is supported by a standard, 73, the short arm of this lever projecting into the paths of the fingers 6, while the long arm extends forward, so as to be borne upon by a stop, 74, that is carried by one of the rolls 61.

The stud or shaft 76,upon which the case 71 is mounted,is provided with a gear, 77,which gear is engaged by a large gear placed as indicated by dotted lines in Figs. 2 and 8, and this large gear is in turn engaged by a gear, 78, that is carried by the shaft 13, the arrangement being such that as the lever 18 is thrown to move the shaft 13 a corresponding motion will be imparted to the shaft 76.

From the above description it will be seen that at every throw of the operating-lever 43 one of the fingers e, which is opposite the short arm ofthe lever 72, will be forced inward and the units-disk arranged in connection with said finger will be advanced one step, so that at the end of a day or any other given period the operator may examine the case 71 and at once determine the number of tickets sold to any given station on the line, the numerals of the disks within the case being arranged in line 'with apertures k, that are located as indicated in Fig. 17, or the case 71 might in practice consist of two disks without any uniting peripheral rim.

The inking-rollers for the type-wheels l2 and 24 and for the plate 10 are carried by arms 80, that are pivotally mounted beneath the shaft 13, the inking-rollers for the type of the wheels 12 and 24 being mounted upon a In practice it will probably be shaft, 81, that is carried by the arms 80,while the inking-roller 82, which acts in connection with the type of the plate 10, is carried by two rearwardlyextending arms, 83, that are supported by the shaft 81, the roller 82 being held in yielding contact with the type of the plate 10 by springs 84. A link, 85, is pivot ally connected to one of the arms and to one side of the platen-frame 40, so that at every throw of the platen-frame the inkingrollers will be thrown forward and back across the type.

The inking-rollers 86, by means of which the type of the two series of disks shown at A and B are inked, are carried by arms 87, that are pivotally connected to the frame 88, which supports the shafts of the two series of disks, and these arms are connected by links 89 with toggle-levers 90, the lower links of said togglelevers being pivotally connected to the frame 88, while the upper links are pivotally c011- neeted to L-shaped brackets 91, which are in turn pivotally connected to the frame 40, the rearwardly-extending arms of the brackets being normally held against stops 92 by springs 93, that are arranged as clearly shown in Figs. 2 and 5.

From the construction described it will be seen that as the platen-frame is moved downward and the lower lengths of the togglelevers carried to a horizontal position the rollers 86 will first be carried inward and over the faces of the type in connection with which they are arranged; but as the lower arms of the toggle-levers are carried still farther down the rollers 86 will be carried outward and clear of the type, the parts being so timed that when the reverse of this movement takes place the rollers 86 will move sidewise from the path of the roller 82 just as said roller 82 reaches its extreme rearward position.

To the forward end of the platen-frame I hinge an open frame, 95, which carries a knife, 9, that operates in connection with a curvededge knife, 8, that is carried by standards 96, the web 0 passing through the open frame 95 and between the standards 96, so that as the lever 43 is thrown to move the frame 40 to its elevated position the web will be caught be tween the two knifeedges and will thus be severed, the severed ticket being delivered over an apron, 98, and out through an aperture, 99, that is formed just above the main portion of the forward end of the case 100, the operating mechanism being at this point protected by a shield, 101. In order that the frame 95 may be guided so that it will not strike the typewheel 12, I arrange a guide-plate, 107, at one side of said type-wheel, this guideplate being formed with an upper inclined edge, against which the frame 95 strikes as the platen-frame 40 is thrown downward.

In order that the type-wheels carried by the shaft 18 may be held in register at times when impressions are to be taken from said wheels, Iprovidea locking-bolt, 102, which is mounted to slide in ways formed at one side of the case IIO 100, this bolt being arranged to engage with the recesses ofa star-wheel, 103, that is connected to the shaft 13, the bolt being normally held in engagement with said wheel by a spiral spring, 104:.

To the bolt 102, I connect a lever, 105, which lever extends upward within the path of one of the short arms 44 of the lever 43, so that as the lever 43 is thrown to a vertical position the lever 105 will be thrown backward and the bolt 102 withdrawn from engagement with the wheel 103, thus permitting the shifting of the type-wheels when the platen-frame is in its elevated position.

In the drawings Ihave illustrated the typewheels as carrying type that are engraved upon their peripheral faces; but in practice I would prefer to employ type fitted in dovetail grooves formed in the peripheral faces of the typewheels, this arrangement allowing for a change in the name of any station on the line, or, if spaces be left, for the introduction of the names of new stations, and if the type become worn or broken they may be removed and new type substituted for the worn or broken type, and in addition to these advantages the original cost of manufacturing the instrument will be materially reduced.

The general operation of the machine has been pointed out in connection with the de scription of the various parts employed in the construction of the machine; but there is one point that I desire to call particular attention to, and that is that the main web 0 is placed in the machine as a blank, that for each ticket printed upon this web the first impression made is that produced by the type of the disks constituting the series A and B, the second impression made is that by the type of the plate 10, and the third impression is that of the main type-wheel, so that at every downward throw of the frame 40 parts of three tickets are printed, the successive impressions made being those represented at E, F, and G in Fig. 18. The final impression made is that represented at G, which, together with the impressions at E and F, produce the finished ticket shown at H in Fig. 13, the impressions E and F of the following tickets being made at the same time that the final impression, G, is made upon the ticket to be delivered. In other words, when the blank web is introduced the frame 40 must be thrown three times to produce a finished ticket; but after the first ticket is delivered a ticket will be thrown out at each complete movement of the said frame 40.

It will of course be understood that the lever 43 might be dispensed with and that the machine might be operated by a treadlc connected directly to the frame 40; and generally I desire it to be understood that although this specification describes a specific and for certain purposes a preferred arrangement of elements constituting my improvements it is intended to embrace all modifications and changes within the scope of the claims hereto appended, and that although the apparatus has been described as a railroad-ticket-printing device it may be used in many other ways.

In practice it will be found that for the purpose intended the use of this machine will result in a material saving of time and expense in the distribution of tickets or checks.

Having thus fully described myinvention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent- 1. In a ticket-printing apparatus, the combination, with a plate provided with characters from which the body of theticket is printed, of a typewheel carrying the names of the stations to which the tickets are to be sold, a means, substantially as described, for shifting the type-wheel, a series of dating disks upon which the characters are arranged to print at right angles to the lines of print of the plate and type-wheel, spring arms or catches arranged in connection with the dating-disks, a platen mounted on a swinging frame, and means, substantially as described, for lowering the swinging frame, as and for the purpose stated.

2. In a ticket-printing machine, the combination, with a series of disks, as B, and a means, substantially as described, for advancing said disks step by step, of a second series of disks, A, a plate, 10, a type-wheel, 12, a means, substantially as described, for shifting the type-wheel, an inking apparatus,substantially as described, a platen, an impressionroller, and an operating mechanism, substantially as described.

3. In a-ticket-printing machine, the combination, with a series of numbering-disks and a means, substantially as described, for ad vancing said disks, of a series of dating-disks, a plate mounted in advance of said disks, the type-wheel mounted in advance of the plate, and a means, substantially as described, for shifting the position of the type-wheel, a typeinking mechanism, substantially as described, a platen and impression-roller, and an operat ing mechanism therefor, substantially as de scribed. a web feeding mechanism, and a websevering mechanisn1,substantially as described.

4. In a ticket-printing machine, the combination, with a.series of disks, as B, and a means, substantially as described, for advancing said disks step by step, of a second series of disks, as A, a plate, 10, a type-wheel, 12, a means, substantially as described, for shifting the type-wheel, two sets of inking-rollers, a means, substantially as described, for moving said rollers across the face of the type,one set longitudinally and the other transversely, a platen and impression-roller, and an operat ing mechanism, substantially as described.

5. The combination, with a plate, 10, of a type-wheel located in advance of the plate, a platen and an impression-roller, a swinging frame carrying a shaft, 81, connections between said shaft and the platen-frame, arms 83, an inking'roller carried by said arms, and springs 84, all substantially as described.

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6. The combination, with a platen and its frame, of two series of disks, Aand B, inkingrollers 86, arms 87, by which said rollers are carried, toggle-levers 90, the upper links of which are connected to the platen-frame, and

links 89, by which the arms 87 and the togglelevers are connected, substantially as described.

7. The combination, with a ticket-printing mechanism, substantially as described, of a swinging frame hinged to the forward end of the platen-frame of the printing mechanism, a knife-edge carriedby the frame, and a fixed knife-edge mounted in advance of the platen frame, substantially as described.

8. The combination, with a ticket-printing mechanism, substantially as described, of a swinging frame hinged to the forward end of the platen-frame of the printing mechanism, and a fixed curved-edge blade, 8, mounted in advance of the platen-frame, substantially as described.

9. The combination, with a ticket-printing mechanism, substantially as described, of a swinging frame hinged to the forward end of the platen-frame of the printing mechanism,

. afixed curved-edge blade, 8, mounted in ad- Vance of the platen'frame, and an apron, 98, arranged in advance of the fixed knife-edge, substantially as described.

10. The combination, with a revoluble case, of a number of sets of numeral-disks mounted about the axis of the case, a type-wheel, a means, substantially as described, for simultaneously moving the typewheel and the case, and a means, substantially as described, for operating the numeral-disks, as and for the purpose stated.

11. In a ticket-printing machine, the combination, with a case, 71, of a number of sets of numeral-disks, (Z, mounted therein, fingers e, extending outward from the case and arranged to engage the toothed wheels of the numeral-disks, a lever, 72, a type-wheel, 12, gearing arranged between the case 71 and the type-wheel, and a stop carried by the platen or printing frame in position to engage the lever 72, substantially as described.

12. The combination, with a type-wheel, of a gear connected thereto, a segmental gear engaging with the type-wheel gear, a lever, 18, connected to the segmental gear, a plate, 22, having notches 21, and a locking-bolt carried by the lever 18, substantially as described.

13. The combination, with a platen-frame, of a platen carried thereby, a combined impression and feeding roller, and feeding-rollers arranged beneath the impressioirroller, substantially as described.

14. The combination, with a platen-frame, of a platen carried thereby, a combined inipression and feeding roller, feeding-rollers arranged beneath the impression-rollcr, and a means, substantially as described, for holding the upper feeding-roller in yielding contact 65 with the lower feeding-rollers, as and for the purpose stated.

15. The combination, with a platen-frame, of a platen and a combined feeding and impression roller carried thereby, a toothed wheel arranged in connection with the feeding-roller, a swinging frame pivotally connected to the platen-frame, a pawl carried by the swinging frame and arranged to engage the toothed wheel, and a lever connected to the platen-frame and provided with a stop adapted to engage a block carried by the swinging pawl-carrying frame, substantially as described.

GIDEON B. MASSEY. Vitnesses:

EDWARD KENT, Jr., 0. SEDGWIOK. 

